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newbooks Book of the Year
Every year newbooks readers have the chance to vote for their favourite Book of the Year.
The book can be published in any year but you must have read it this year.
It does not have to be a newbooks Featured Book though we are always gratified by the number of votes that our books receive.
Readers tell us that the Top Ten makes a useful resource for their Reading Groups or those who simply love reading.
The 2011 winner was Room by Emma Donoghue.
The 2011 top ten as voted for by newbooks readers is as follows:
Room Emma Donoghue
The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal
The Long Song Andrea Levy
The Help Kathryn Stockett
One Day David Nicholls
City of Veils Zoë Ferraris
Afterwards Rosamund Lupton
So Much for That Lionel Shriver
Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese
When God Was a Rabbit Sarah Winman
The 2010 winner was The Help by Kathryn Stockett. 
The 2010 top ten as voted for by newbooks readers is as follows:
1. The Help - Kathryn Stockett
2. Wolf Hall - Hilary Mantel
3. The Elegance of the Hedgehog - Muriel Barbery
4. The Glass Room - Simon Mawer
5. The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Anne Shaffer & Annie Burrows
6. Hearts & Minds - Amanda Craig
7. The Angel's Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
8. The Crimson Rooms - Katharine Mcmahon
9. The Girl who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Stieg Larsson
10. The Earth Hums in B Flat - Mari Strachan
See newbooks 61 for more information.
An interview with Kathryn Stockett about the writing of The Help can be found on the Penguin website.
You can also see a preview of the new film based on the book.
Book of the Year Previous Winners
2010 The Help Kathryn Stockett
2009 The Return Victoria Hislop
2008 A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini
2007 Suite Française Irène Némirovsky
2006 The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini
2005 My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult
2004 The Sixth Lamentation William Brodrick
2003 Altered Land Jules Hardy
2002 The Siege Helen Dunmore